Carlos With Benefits

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So, imagine you were walking down the street and you heard someone say:

If that tomato is a bunter and not a gasser, you’d be a Harvey not to make it Endsville, Charley

Chances are, you have no idea what the hell that sentence means — Lord knows, we didn’t. Well it’s a good thing you tuned in this week, so you can get up to speed on your Sinatra-speak.  And in honour of the Chairman himself, it’s bad-ass week here high atop the Flimm Building.  Not being particularly bad ass ourselves, we are happy to bask in the glow of others’ bad assery. First, we take a look at a Cambodian man with perhaps the worst job in the world… poking land mines with a stick.  Tell that to the pilots who have to be the first to fly through the Icelandic volcano cloud.

Of course, we all know these are things Chuck Norris does each day before breakfast, right?  Which got the nerds thinking: where exactly did all these Chuck Norris jokes come from?  Was there a starting point for all this craziness?  Well, a few emails and Skype calls later, we got our answer.

( His name is Ian.)

Now that many of us carry the Internet in our pockets, it seems interactions have changed somewhat, no?  We have a look at 10 things the Internet has killed (and five things it hasn’t), as well as the list of acceptable ways to whip out your smart phone in public.  Besides, what exactly are iPhones good for?  After all, people are dropping prototype 4G versions in bars.  Fortunately, Steve Jobs may not be paying too much attention, seeing as how he’s now trying to worm his way in to the concert ticket business.  We look at Apple’s latest move, as well as the questionable reasons CNN decided this week to report on “friends with benefits.”

Plus, defining “erotic capital,” why it’s fashionable to stick wax up your nose, and what John Cleese spent $5000 on this week (it wasn’t a dead parrot).  All that and more, on “Betty White’s favorite podcast” — Lesser Nerds.

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